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Buying Guide: Web Conferencing Services
Web conferencing might just put half of the airlines out of business. Rather than fly across the country for a meeting, groups can meet virtually using collaboration services software, VoIP, and the Internet to conduct business.
Buying Guide: Document Management
From off-site printing to scanning and archiving, document management systems are something we take for granted. They're also something that most businesses underuse.
Software as a service: Cloud computing is coming
What do you really need to know about software as a service? It's renting your software, not buying it. The practice can cut your short-term costs, and the technology is getting much, much better, but it carries some risks you should learn.
VoiP and cell phones: Sorting out your phone bills
What do you really need to know about VoIP, land lines and cell phones? Some VoIP service providers can send calls to your cellular phone, PDA, or smartphone. Which is wonderful until your broadband internet connection crashes. Others provide call routing services or customized phone numbers. There's more to think about than just calling the phone company and lugging a telephone into the wall.
Taxes for Entrepreneurs
Limiting Your Audit Risk
As quoted in the Los Angeles Times (March 15, 2010)
You can never eliminate that chance of being audited, because a perfect tax return will be suspicious, too (who files perfect taxes?) Company.com has ten ways to reduce your risk of an audit – we figure that most small businesses don’t have big accounts in the Caymans or Switzerland, and that if you’re reading this you haven’t run into significant tax problems in the past. Otherwise you'd know this stuff already.
Taxes for Entrepreneurs
Your First Tax Season
If, like tens of thousands of individuals in 2009, you started a business, 2010 might be the first time you’ve ever needed to file business taxes. You might think that they’re just like individual taxes, but you’d be wrong. Business taxes are the Complete Works of Shakespeare. Your individual taxes are the Cliff Notes of “Where’s Waldo?”
What to do if you won't be able to file your taxes on time.
It's April 8th. Raise your hand if you've filed your taxes. Anyone who raised their hand, you get a gold star, two if you estimated and paid throughout the year. Everyone else, read on.
Buying Guide: Payroll Processing
We think that only a violent catastrophe could damage employee morale and job satisfaction faster than a payroll problem. A substantial portion of the workforce lives paycheck-to-paycheck. Disrupt a pay cycle for more than a week, in the wrong week and many people would lose their home. No pressure, boss.
Taxes - What Are the Big Names in Tax Preparation Services
Which companies are the best known tax payment services? Do they offer services targeting small and medium-sized business?
Taxes - How Do I Choose a Tax Preparation Company?
A good preparer also has the business acumen to tell you when you should make changes to the way you work. Anyone can run Quicken or use H&R Block automated tax preparation software. It takes brains to know how to use the tax information to glean business insight.